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Book meme, gakked from somebody:
1. One book that changed your life
The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
2. One book that you've read more than once:
I am an avid re-reader.Nineteen Eighty-Four isn't the only book which is quite literally falling apart. (Although in my defense, many of the falling-apart books were purchased used
4. One book that made you laugh:
I'm not a huge comedy fan. I chuckled lightly over some of my Pratchett novels
5. One book that made you cry:
Traitor's Sun by Adrienne Martine-Barnes is the one in which Regis Hastur dies, right? His funeral service really moved me. (I cry at many fictional funeral services--as well as non-fictional ones, obviously--because they're all about people who loved the lost one coming together and recognizing how great they were and I get jealous, damn it.)
6. One book that you wish had been written:
Oh so many. So many writers have just a bit too much restraint when I wish they had been just a little more indulgent.
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. One book you're currently reading:
The Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant. I'm averaging about a page every five minutes. Also, Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins, which is a much quicker read.
9. One book you've been meaning to read:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoyevsky
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witchqueen, with some alterations:
Also, in one meme or another I saw on my flist, there were the questions "Do you believe in heaven?" and "Do you believe in abortion?" For the record, I don't believe in anything. Instead, I utilize cognitive models to structure my experience. (Heaven is beyond experience, so meaningful human thought about it just isn't possible; the best for which we can hope is to resort to metaphor.) I am pro-choice, a feminist, a Christian, a Discordian, etc. but I don't believe in any of them--they are patterns of belief--or, more acurately, of interpretations.
1. One book that changed your life
The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
2. One book that you've read more than once:
I am an avid re-reader.Nineteen Eighty-Four isn't the only book which is quite literally falling apart. (Although in my defense, many of the falling-apart books were purchased used
4. One book that made you laugh:
I'm not a huge comedy fan. I chuckled lightly over some of my Pratchett novels
5. One book that made you cry:
Traitor's Sun by Adrienne Martine-Barnes is the one in which Regis Hastur dies, right? His funeral service really moved me. (I cry at many fictional funeral services--as well as non-fictional ones, obviously--because they're all about people who loved the lost one coming together and recognizing how great they were and I get jealous, damn it.)
6. One book that you wish had been written:
Oh so many. So many writers have just a bit too much restraint when I wish they had been just a little more indulgent.
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. One book you're currently reading:
The Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant. I'm averaging about a page every five minutes. Also, Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins, which is a much quicker read.
9. One book you've been meaning to read:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoyevsky
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witchqueen, with some alterations:Post a link to your fan fiction. The goal is this -- when you spot the meme, click on the link to that person's fanfic and pick something you haven't read before or never commented on when you did read it. The goal is to send feedback for something that you genuinely love reading. Point out lines you loved, style choices you adored, that hot little thing that happened in the middle of the smut. Anything that you love to pieces.My fic index, as always, is here.
You can do it as many times as you want for anybody you want but hopefully you should try to do it every time you see the meme. This way, for the next week or so, people will be getting all kinds of nice comments from people about their stuff, and I don't know about anybody else, but that always makes me happy. :) Plus, you might read something new that you missed before.
Also, in one meme or another I saw on my flist, there were the questions "Do you believe in heaven?" and "Do you believe in abortion?" For the record, I don't believe in anything. Instead, I utilize cognitive models to structure my experience. (Heaven is beyond experience, so meaningful human thought about it just isn't possible; the best for which we can hope is to resort to metaphor.) I am pro-choice, a feminist, a Christian, a Discordian, etc. but I don't believe in any of them--they are patterns of belief--or, more acurately, of interpretations.